Dr Thu Ngo | UNSW Research

My Expertise

Systemic Functional Linguistics & Social Semiotics

Multimodal digital literacy education

Paralanguage (Body language, Gesture, Facial Expression and Voice Quality)

Children’s literature

Fields of Research (FoR)

English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL), LOTE, ESL and TESOL curriculum and pedagogy, Applied linguistics and educational linguistics

My Grants

ACU Teaching Development Grant (2019-2020)

Topic: Visualising multimodal literacy teaching pedagogy in real school contexts

Explorance Faculty Research Grant (2021)

Topic: Enhancing learner satisfaction with challenging pedagogical content through student-feedback-based course redesign.

My Qualifications

Ph.D, Education Linguistics (University of New England, Australia)

Topic: Deployment of evaluative language in...view more

My Grants

ACU Teaching Development Grant (2019-2020)

Topic: Visualising multimodal literacy teaching pedagogy in real school contexts

Explorance Faculty Research Grant (2021)

Topic: Enhancing learner satisfaction with challenging pedagogical content through student-feedback-based course redesign.

My Qualifications

Ph.D, Education Linguistics (University of New England, Australia)

Topic: Deployment of evaluative language in English and Vietnamese spoken discourse

M.Ed, TESOL (University of Sydney, Australia)

Topic: Text-based and text-free English pronunciation by Vietnamese EFL students: an intelligibility approach.

My Awards

ACU, Teaching Citation Award (2021)
ACU, Faculty of Education and Arts, Teaching Excellence Award (2020)

My Research Activities

Ngo, T., & Unsworth, L. (forthcoming). Digital Multimodal Adaptations of Children’s Literature: Semiotic Analyses and Classroom Applications: Routledge.

My Research Supervision

Areas of supervision

Systemic Functional Linguistics, e.g. evaluative language, emotional meaning making resources, meaning and expressions of meaning in different languages etc.
Social Semiotics, e.g. static and moving images, paralanguage, film music and sounds
Paralanguage, i.e. gesture, body language, facial expression, voice quality in Performing Arts and Teaching
Multimodal Digital Literacy education, e.g. teaching reading viewing of multimodal texts, images, screen-based texts
Children's Multimodal Digital Literature Adaptation, eg. semiotic comparative studies between an original literary work and its filmic adaptation, linguistic realisations of literature elements and devices.
Film studies in Language Arts/English education, e.g. semiotics of film techniques, literary effects in films
Gifted & Talented Literacy education, e.g. extended Gifted students's creative writing
TESOL subject content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge (e.g. curriculum design, teaching and assessment)